Ha ha. Yes, I'm skeptical of our modern hubris that sees everything from the past as so 'archaic.' Shakespeare is fine, but give me Shelley any day of the week. This here sonnet is submitted for the current Live Journal idol in progress, the prompt for which put a concept in my head that sparked the opening line and I suddenly figured it might be formulated in a sonnet. I went back to Shelley's "Political Greatness," "England in 1819," "On Launching Some Bottles Filled with Knowledge into the Bristol Channel," among others, for structural inspiration, and this was the result! The topic of hubris I dare say might be 'timeless.' And after all these years I'm starting to believe that Shelley's "Ozymandias" might possibly be the greatest sonnet ever written.
The sonnet (and other forms of poetry) has never been dead to me. Trying to fit what you want to say into a rhyme/rhythm/length scheme really forces a writer to dig deep to find the right words. Sometimes free verse becomes a license to jot down whatever comes to mind.
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what inspired this?
it's like a modern passion play..
sounds like the american global narrative at the moment
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Shakespeare is fine, but give me Shelley any day of the week. This here sonnet is submitted for the current Live Journal idol in progress, the prompt for which put a concept in my head that sparked the opening line and I suddenly figured it might be formulated in a sonnet. I went back to Shelley's "Political Greatness," "England in 1819," "On Launching Some Bottles Filled with Knowledge into the Bristol Channel," among others, for structural inspiration, and this was the result!
The topic of hubris I dare say might be 'timeless.' And after all these years I'm starting to believe that Shelley's "Ozymandias" might possibly be the greatest sonnet ever written.
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it seems to get curiouser and curiouser !
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